Data Delivery Lead

Data Delivery Lead | Contract | Legacy Decommissioning | London (Hybrid) | £595/day

A national infrastructure and logistics organisation is decommissioning a significant legacy data estate as part of a wider platform transformation. They need a Data Delivery Lead to own this workstream end to end, managing delivery, suppliers, and stakeholders through to completion.

You’ll be accountable for the delivery of a defined project with real budget behind it, working directly with data architects and reporting into the Data Delivery Director. If you want a contract where you can point to a clean, ownable outcome on your CV, this is that role.

The Role

• Own end-to-end delivery of a legacy decommissioning project, using Agile methods within an established governance framework
• Manage a team of 3-6 across technology, business, and supplier resources, including offshore delivery teams
• Hold suppliers to account against contracted deliverables, timelines, and quality bar
• Manage project financials and resourcing against a £3-5m combined budget, escalating deviations early
• Facilitate stakeholder sign-off with data architects and the Release Manager across deployments
• Provide clear, CIO-visible progress reporting and manage risk proactively, not reactively
• Coordinate communications across a genuinely mixed technical and business stakeholder group

What We’re Looking For

• Proven Agile delivery experience, non-negotiable
• Hands-on use of Jira and Azure DevOps
• Strong stakeholder communication skills, comfortable operating with senior/CIO-level visibility
• Experience managing supplier and offshore delivery resources
• Cloud platform exposure (GCP, Azure, or AWS)

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AI-assisted or agentic SDLC tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot)
• A recognised delivery methodology background (Prince2, SAFe, Scrum of Scrums)

What’s On Offer

• £595 per day (Umbrella/Inside IR35)
• Initial contract to end of January, with strong signals of extension to end of March
• Hybrid working, London office based (Farringdon), genuinely outcome-driven rather than rigid on days in office
• Single-stage interview process, direct with the hiring team’s data architects, no lengthy multi-round loop

If you want a contract with real scope, a fast process, and an outcome you can genuinely own, get in touch.